Father, son found wounded; son succumbs
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 04 2022:
In a mysterious and shocking incident, a man and his son who was just around two years and six months old were found wounded inside a room.
While the kid has succumbed to the injuries, the father is undergoing treatment in hospital in critical condition.
The shocking incident took place at Lairenkabi Maning Leikai, Imphal West district under Lamsang police station in the night of May 2 .
The man who sustained critical injuries has been identified as Leitanthem So-mendro (28) s/o Late Mai- pak of Lairenkabi Maning Leikai.
He is currently undergoing treatment in the ICU of RIMS.
Somendro and his son were found soaked in blood on their bed at around 8.30 pm of Monday.
It looked like they were wounded by sharp and pointed objects.
According to information culled from the spot, Lei-tanthem Somendro and his wife Leitanthem (O) Pushpa (27) were seen quarrelling on Monday at around 6.30 am.
The couple are working as jewellery makers at their house.
Pushpa went to Imphal on the same day to sell some jewellery items and came back in the afternoon, and there was no more quarrel between the husband and the wife.
However, at around 8.30 am, Pushpa was heard shouting like 'Murder, murder' .
As people of the neighbourhood rushed in, their room was found locked from inside.
As soon as the door was rammed open, Pushpa ran out and wailed at the courtyard asking the people to save her son and husband.In the next moment, the neighbours found the father and the son soaked in blood on their bed.
One Leitanthem Romita (36) who is said to be an aunt of Somendro alleged that a knife was found stuck in the stomach of Somendro and the kid was lying beside him when she entered his room.
It was not realised immediately that the kid too was wounded for he did not make any noise.
But a closer look revealed that the child was injured critically, Romita said.
Even as both the father and the son were rushed to RIMS the same night, the child succumbed to the injuries yesterday morning.
Meanwhile, Pushpa was handed over to her parental family as she collapsed following the incident, sources said.
How did the father and the son get wounded and whether Pushpa was totally unaware when the injuries were inflicted remains a big question.
But police suspect that Somendro first inflicted injuries upon his son before doing the same to himself, according to the sources.
Nonetheless, police have started investigating the incident after a case was registered at Lamsang police station.